Technology and Social Agency - Outlining an Anthropological Framework for Archaeology (Paperback)

The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective. The author is explicitly concerned with studying ancient technological practices but the general concept of technology forms the centrepiece of discussion and is defined as an explicitly social, symbolic, and embodied endeavour that simultaneously brings into being both human agents and their material world.

Dobres argues that, for ancient technologies and products to be fully understood, we need to appreciate the historically constituted ways in which social agency, technical knowledge and the gestural acts of artefact production and use were socially meaningful and, thus, politically charged.

General

Imprint:	Blackwell Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2000
First published:	1991
Authors:	M Dobres
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-1-57718-124-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN:	1-57718-124-7
Barcode:	9781577181248

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